Chinese Medicine and Spring Time
Spring definitely is upon us; While nights are still cold, the first heat waves are starting to roll in. Spring is a period of growth and...
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HAY FEVER time in .. 3, 2, 1
Hay fever season is almost upon us again. Ideally you will already have started taking the preparative Chinese herbs that calm down your...
Food and its Energetic Composition
This is a VERY vast field and really cannot be summarised into a few sentences, but a brief introduction/ categorization of food may be...
Chinese Medicine and what Lingers under the Surface
Sometimes illnesses, emotions and general imbalances stay with us. The smallest event triggers a flare, be it acne, insomnia, headaches,...
Chinese medicine and Cough
Cough is linked to the lungs, so the primary acupuncture points are on the Lung channel. The type of your cough will tell you about your...
Chinese Medicine and Winter Solstice
… and .. blink and you miss it, 22st of June in the Southern Hemisphere - the shortest day of the year has passed 😊. From now on, the...
Chinese medicine and your Bladder
Always running to find the next toilet? Or fine during the day but waking up several times during the night? In Chinese medicine,...
Chinese medicine and Arthritis
Especially now when the nights are decidedly getting colder is the perfect time for your joints to remind you of their presence. Knees,...
Chinese medicine and Period Pain
Period pain can range from slightly uncomfortable to downright unbearable stabbing pain. It can start already a few days before the...
Acupuncture and IVF
Acupuncture is all about balancing yourself and calming body and mind. Pre-pregnancy, pregnancy, and birth are major areas where...
Chinese medicine and Chronic Cough
Do you experience that barking dry cough that just doesn’t want to go away? Or more of a tickling, scratchy throat that triggers a mild...
Chinese Medicine and the Common Cold
With warm days and cold nights, the time of sore throats, coughing and sneezing starts again .. While in Western medicine a Cold only...
HAPPY EASTER
A happy and healthy Easter to all my patients and readers ❤️
Chinese medicine and Dry Skin
In Chinese medicine, dryness is usually caused by two possible scenarios: 1) A Heat pathogen in the body that dries out Blood and...
Yin & Yang within Solstice & Equinox
Last week in our Southern Hemisphere, we observed Autumn Equinox with the move from Yang to Yin. But what are ‘Equinox’ or ‘Solstice’...
Chinese Medicine and Muscle Cramps
My faithful blog readers know by now that any type of pain in Chinese medicine is Stagnation – either of Qi (energy) or Blood. In the...
Be kind to your Feet .. they are your Foundation
Do you apply lotion to your whole body and disregard your feet? So many stop moisturizing at the ankles. What have your poor feet done to...
Autumn is coming ... soon
Slowly, our 30+ days are followed by 15 degree nights and before you know it, Council will do their biannual garden waste collection day...
Chinese medicine and IBS
The name says it all: ‘irritable’ bowel. The intestines react to irritants, be it chronic stress, nasty microbes, or food irritants, for...
… and Keep Hydrating
Though the days in our Southern Hemisphere are slowly becoming shorter, we still get smaller cyclic heat waves – as right now with 34...
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